Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: From the security standpoint, more bits do not buy you more security. Having 16k key or 2k key will buy you about the same security. It is not all in the key lenght. My opinion is, just use 2k key. It will serve you well. I generated one 4

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

Quoting Holger Schuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've any questions. How can i generate a keypair with size more than 4096 bits? I've a RSA key from my friend in my keyring with 16384 bits. How is that possible? Your friend probably used some hacked code that has limit removed. Anyhow, generati

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 16k rsa keys are very bulky to use, and provide *very, very, long* signatures (i tried it out just to see what would happen,;-) but see no advantage, and have not bothered to make a another key for security use, after trying the test keybut if you really want

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ???? (OT)

Christoph Anton Mitterer cam at mathematica.scientia.net wrote on Wed Dec 21 23:25:07 CET 2005 : > lol,.. was sieht man hieran? Übersetzungssoftware taugt einfach >nichts i must agree with you *completely* about this :-))) i just translated the german translation back into english using the

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ???? (OT)

Schl�ssel des rsa 16k sind sehr umfangreich zu verwenden und liefern * sehr sehr lang * Unterzeichnungen (mich versuchte es heraus gerade, um zu sehen was geschehen w�rde,; -) aber sehen keinen Vorteil und haben nicht gest�rt, einen einen anderen Schl�ssel f�r Sicherheitsgebrauch, nachdem sie

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

Holger Schuettel wrote: >I've any questions. How can i generate a keypair with size more than >4096 bits? I've a RSA key from my friend in my keyring with 16384 bits. >How is that possible? 16k rsa keys are very bulky to use, and provide *very, very, long* signatures (i tried it out just t

using gpgsm

I've downloaded GnuPG 1.9.20, just to do some testing with S/MIME, considering it as replacement for openssl tools once stable version is out. However, have some trouble with using it. I was able to import CA certificate, and importing other certificates seems to work too (almost). I wasn't able

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

Holger Schuettel wrote: I've any questions. How can i generate a keypair with size more than 4096 bits? I've a RSA key from my friend in my keyring with 16384 bits. This is not desirable at all. - First of all you may encounter compatibility problems (although I haven't found any limit on th

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

Holger Schuettel wrote: >I've any questions. How can i generate a keypair with size more than >4096 bits? I've a RSA key from my friend in my keyring with 16384 bits. >How is that possible? It's probably created with one of the many hacked versions of pgp 2.x that are around. The 2048 bits 2.x e

Create key's over 4096 bit ????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I've any questions. How can i generate a keypair with size more than 4096 bits? I've a RSA key from my friend in my keyring with 16384 bits. How is that possible? I've to try it with gnupg to generate a key over 4096 bits and thats not possible. C